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Jenny Harrington, Steve Weiss and Joe Terranova join 'Halftime Report' to discuss the energy sector and where they're seeing opportunities to invest.

Higher Thanksgiving demand should help oil and energy ETFs despite the renewed COVID fears.

Shares of oil companies are enjoying a broad rally Tuesday, after crude oil prices bounces sharply to turn positive, shrugging off President Biden''s announcement of a plan to release 50 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in an attempt to rein in prices. The SPDR Energy Select Sector ETF rose 1.1% in premarket trading, with all 21 components gaining ground ahead of the open. Among some of the more active components, shares of Exxon Mobil Corp. gained 0.8%, Chevron Corp. rose 1.3%, ConocoPhillips climbed 1.2%, Marathon Oil Corp. tacked on 1.6% and Occidental Petroleum Corp. advanced 1.9%. Continuous crude oil futures rose 1.2% to $77.66, reversing an earlier loss of about 1.8%, according to FactSet data. Meanwhile, futures for the S&P 500 were little changed. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

Shares of oil companies are enjoying a broad rally Tuesday, after crude oil prices bounces sharply to turn positive, shrugging off President Biden's announcement of a plan to release 50 million barrel

BlackRock The Fed''s Wall Street Croupier Authored by David Stockman, Central banks have not merely inflated the bejesus out of assets prices. They have also caused the very foundations of financial markets to metastasize, yielding an endless array of new products that have no real economic function except to facilitate new forms of pure wagering. Foremost among these are exchange traded funds (ETFs). If you are inclined to give the latter the benefit of the doubt, you might well ask why the world was so benighted as recently as 2003 that only $204 billion of these swell financial instruments existed a figure which is just 2.6% of the $7.74 trillion currently outstanding. That is to say, if ETFs were the spawn of free markets and actually facilitated honest price discovery in primary and secondary capital markets, they would have been invented and institutionalized long ago; and upwards of 80% of outstandings would most certainly not have materialized just during the past eight years.

The energy sector took a broad beating Friday, and was the weakest of the S&P 500''s 11 key sectors, after crude oil prices were slapped down by fears that rising COVID cases in Europe will drive down demand. The SPDR Energy Select Sector ETF dropped 3.5%, with all 21 equity components losing ground, and has lost 5.5% amid a three-day losing streak. The biggest loser was Devon Energy Corp.''s stock , which slid 5.6%. Among other more active components, shares of Exxon Mobil Corp. slumped 4.3%, Marathon Oil Corp. gave up 4.3%, Occidental Petroleum Corp. lost 4.9%, Schlumberger Ltd. fell 5.1% and Chevron Corp. declined 2.2%. Meanwhile, crude oil futures shed 3.7% toward a seven-week low. The energy sector ETF has still run up 19.8% over the past three months, while crude oil futures have climbed 18.9% and the S&P 500 has gained 7.0%. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

The energy sector took a broad beating Friday, and was the weakest of the S&P 500's SPX, +0.23% 11 key sectors, after crude oil prices were slapped down by fears that rising COVID cases in Europe will

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